The O'Reilly Design Podcast explores how experience design -- and experience designers -- are shaping business, the Internet of Things, and other domains.

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Agile Teams and more

Chief Editor of The Outsourcing Journal interviews two tech entrepreneurs about how to build and manage effectively remote Agile software development teams. 

Intersog Podcast #2: How To Staff and Manage Effectively Your External Agile Team

In our first podcast, we sit down to discuss content strategy with a friend and colleague, David Dylan Thomas, Senior Content Strategist at EPAM Systems.

David is founder of Content Camp and runs the Content Strategy Meetup, in Philadelphia, PA.

Note: the recording was originally intended for classroom use, but we've decided to open it up to anyone interested in learning more about the topics discussed here.

Persoanl Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daviddylanthomas1
https://www.twitter.com/movie_pundit

Organizational Links:
http://www.meetup.com/Philly-Content-Strategy/
http://www.contentcampphilly.com/

Content Strategy and the UX Design Process: an Interview with David Dylan Thomas

Agile in Wonderland: Designing for an agile client with an offsite UX team

On our third episode of Young Lions, we talk with Matthew Barton, the man behind the Republic app. Hear Matthew describe the methodology behind creating a user-friendly app and about how he hates puzzles.

Young Lions: Episode 3 - Matthew Barton - Sr. User Experience Designer

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guest and leading organizational coach Bob Costello—a Senior Agile Coach with the Eliassen Group—for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast! Bob offers over 20 years experience in the software industry and has held leadership positions in both software startups and large organizations. He has a background in software development, product management, and engineering. For the last 8 years Bob has been helping organizations, both at the team and leadership levels, to make the transition to agile. Bob excels at helping organizations achieve both their business and organizational goals of an agile change program, with leadership coaching, team coaching and change management. He has a rich background of experience with IBM Design Studio, BlueCollar Objects, Akkolade Consulting, Valtech, ACS, CGI-AMS, BEA Systems, Deloitte, Next Software and more.

In this episode Bob shares his journey over the last 20 years rising up through the ranks in the software development industry to becoming an agile leadership and team coach. Themes covered in the podcast include: working at NEXT Software with Steve Jobs; The Agile Manifesto; the changing operating context that catalyzed the agile movement; agile principles and practices; coaching agile mindsets vs. process; “being” vs. “doing” agile; using situational leadership for coaching agile leaders and teams; shared leadership in agile teams; the 4 SCRUM ceremonies; managing your role as an agile team coach; team maturity and development; agile teams as learning teams and more. Bob also shares some great stories coaching agile teams as well as recommendations on books and team coach training programs that focus on agile.

All team coaches including both generalist practitioners as well as specialists in coaching agile teams will find Bob’s insights and lessons learned well worth the listen. This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!

053: Bob Costello: Coaching Agile Teams: From Being a Group to Becoming an Agile Team

The Refined Consultant Ep. 11 - Maturing Agile At The Team Level Podcast

An excellent indicator of a good Agile team is their High Performance.  This is very closely linked to the Happiness levels in the Team.  So what makes a Happy Agile team?

The Happy Agilist Podcast

What makes a happy agile team?

Steve Robinson, senior web technology architect at Omni Resources, has 15 years of experience in marketing and technology. Here he describes what user centered design is, how it is it used, and the importance of this practice in the industry today. Steve teaches the course "User Centered Design for Web and Mobile – Planning Digital Experiences that Work for Business and Users" at UWM SCE. http://uwm.edu/sce/digital-marketing/

User Centered Design with Steve Robinson

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations manager, ground data system manager, and resource prospector for the Lunar Rover Mission at NASA. We talk about applying Agile, adopting design thinking and user-centered design, and what he and his team rely on to design and build software for mission control.

Jay Trimble on User-Centered Design, Agile, and Design Thinking at NASA

This week, I sit down with Travis Lowdermilk senior UX designer at Microsoft, and Jessica Rich, UX researcher at Microsoft; Lowdermilk and Rich are also co-authors of the "Customer Driven Playbook." We talk about why failing fast is not always a good approach, sensemaking, and never losing track of the customer’s voice.

Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich on Building a Customer-Driven Culture at Microsoft

This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keynoting at Velocity in New York, October 1-4, 2017. We talk about moving from working in design to leading designers, the real and sometimes negative impact that design decisions can have on users, and how design is organized at Shopify.

Cynthia Savard Saucier on Design at Shopify

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Platz, senior designer at Microsoft for the Azure Portal and Marketplaces. We talk about the challenges of working on a top-secret design project, the research behind Amazon's Echo Look, the skills you need to start designing for voice, and how studying improv can make you a better designer.

Cheryl Platz on Designing the Amazon Echo Look

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with John Whalen, chief experience officer at 10 Pearls, a digital development company focused on mobile and web apps, enterprise solutions, cyber security, big data, IoT,  and cloud and dev ops. We talk about the “six minds” that underlie each human experience, why it’s important for designers to understand brain science, and what people really look for in a voice assistant.

John Whalen on Using Brain Science in Design

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rapid experimentation mindset, the design thinking process, and how to get started with rapid experimentation at your company. Hint: start small.

Julie Stanford on Vetting Designs Through Rapid Experimentation

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Jay Trimble on User-Centered Design, Agile, and Design Thinking at NASA

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